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December 14, 2021

Blues and Rhythm Show 338 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, December 14, 2021 (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

Some newly available albums on this week’s program–Sue Foley, Corey Harris, newly repackaged Hound Dog Taylor; Hobo songs; Western Swing on transcription discs; Cajun; Harry Oster field recordings; swamp R&B; rare sixties Gospel; and more.

“Then we rode into Shreveport where we were supposed to eat and when I got my sandwich I had to eat it on the street” — Louisiana Red

“The whites and the blacks point their fingers at me, saying, “Look there, look there at the good for nothing” — Dewey Balfa

On the Show:

Sister Marie Knight – John Creach’s Major & Minors – David Pete Mckinley – Morgan Davis – Magic Slim & the Teardrops – Louisiana Red – The Vaudevillian – Harrison Kennedy – Tuts Washington – Jimmie Rodgers – Hank Penny – Nathan Abshire & the Pinegrove Boys – Hogman Maxey – King Karl – Edna Gallmon Cooke – Staple Singers – Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until for eight weeks until February 9th as a podcast. Just go the website, scroll through 40 shows to Tuesday 10:00 am bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next Week:

Christmas

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October 25, 2021

Blues and Rhythm Show 333x on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, November 2, 2021 (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

Apologies to any that tuned in to hear the program outlined on this site for last week. It’s hazard of submitting audiofiles to the station rather than being present in the studio that the wrong show may come to air. That happened last week. What aired last Tuesday was a repeat of last week’s program (BRS 332). Beyond our control, but as the Syl Johnson song goes, “Sorry ’bout Dat”. We’ve revised the program and the emphasis on Chicago recordings is now greater than the original show we planned. Things just worked out that way. Brief feature on Syl Johnson; Wolf and Sonny Boy; Cobra; Gospel from Chicago.

“So hard to be nice when you treat me the way you do” — Otis Rush

“Here in the ghetto it’s a sad situation. Call it what you wanna, it’s a concrete reservation” — Syl Johnson

On the Show:

Junior Wells – Jimmy Johnson – Downchild Blues Band – Elroy Hart – Buddy Durham – Ginger St. James – Morgan Davis – Homesick James – Sonny Boy Williamson – Magic Sam – Syl Johnson – Otis Clay – Alvin Cash & the Registers – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until for eight weeks until December 22nd as a podcast. Just go the website, scroll through 40 shows to Tuesday 10:00 am bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

Contact Us:

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next Week:

TBA

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October 4, 2021

Blues and Rhythm Show 330 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

Sun Blues singles; Risqué Blues & “The Dozens”: Muddy Waters, live and early; old-time Country; Rhiannon Giddens; Crystal Thomas.

“Into every man’s life some rain has got to fall” — Bumble Bee Slim

“Don’t play the dozens. Don’t know the rules of the game” — Chicago Carl Davis

“i know all about your pappy and your mammy, your big fat sister and your little brother Sammy, your aunty and your uncle and your ma’s and pa’s, you all got drunk and showed your Santy Claus — Memphis Minnie

On the Show:

Joe Houston – Percy Mayfield – Jimmy DeBerry – Muddy Waters – Claude Hopkins Quartet with Rena Collins – Memphis Minnie – Nappy Brown – Big Maybelle – Morgan Davis – Carolina Buddies – Rhiannon Giddens – Smoke Wagon Blues Band – Earl King – Willie May – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until for eight weeks until December 1st as a podcast. Just go the website, scroll through 40 shows to Tuesday 10:00 am bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

Next Week:

TBA

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December 21, 2020

Blues and Rhythm Show 301 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario) – Christmas Edition

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, December 22, 2020 (10:00am to 1:00 pm***)

One week in the year it’s all Christmas on the Blues & Rhythm Show. This year we present a 3-hour special including Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Gospel, Soul, Country, Cajun & Roots Christmas music. Familiar songs and a lot that won’t be familiar. A lot of people’s usual plans for Christmas have changed this year. That includes us. Normally, we would be at the station live on Christmas Day. This year’s Christmas special is prerecorded. If you wish to stream or download the entire podcast it’s three hour program and we believe you will have to open up both this program 10:00-12:00 Tuesday slot and the 12:00-1:00 slot that follows to hear the full three hours. To hear the full 3-hour program start at Morning File for December 22nd (9:00am-10:00am) then click on Swear to Tell the Truth.

On the Show:

Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang – Jesse Thomas – Jimmy Witherspoon – Ozie Ware – Bumble Bee Slim – Rev. J.M. Gates – Stanley Brothers – Gribble, Lusk & York – Jimmy Dawkins – Morgan Davis – Roy Hawkins – Jessie Mae Hemphill – Belton Richard – Marion Williams & the Stars of Faith – Shakura S’Aida – James Brown – Meditation Singers – Gospel Scarlets – Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir – The Insight – and many others.

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at cfmu.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until for eight weeks until February 16th as a podcast. Just go the website, scroll through 40 shows to Tuesday 10:00 am bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

Contact Us:

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com. You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next Two Weeks:

December 29th – no broadcast

January 5th – TBA

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December 14, 2020

Blues and Rhythm Show 300 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, December 15, 2020 (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

Fair portion of Chicago Blues on the program this week, tracks dating from 1947 to 1978, including blues singles and album tracks, Eddie Boyd to Buster Benton. Also early and unissued country from Thomas Edison’s Edison label, bit of Western Swing, the Harlem Hamfats, and Nina Simone, something from a new and comprehensive compilation of Bobby Parker’s work. And for those who like it, some Christmas Blues and Gospel.

On the Show:

Lloyd Glenn – Albert King – Nina Simone – Eddie Boyd – Sonny Boy Williamson II – Koko Taylor – Jimmy Walker & Erwin Helfer – Bobby Parker – Ernest Stoneman & the Dixie Mountaineers – Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon – Texas Jim Lewis & His Lone Star Cowboys – Morgan Davis – Rev. Cleophus Robinson – Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal – and others.

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at cfmu.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until for eight weeks until February 9th as a podcast. Just go the website, scroll through 40 shows to Tuesday 10:00 am bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

Contact Us:

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com. You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next Week:

Christmas – Blues, R&B, Gospel, Country & Roots

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July 30, 2019

Blues and Rhythm Show 252 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, July 23rd (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

A lot of the work that goes into this show is work we do preparing at home and we rely on our technological devices to put a show together. We’d planned to take a week off in any case but technical obstacles prevented us from assembling a show two weeks in a row.

Our July 23rd program included rhythm & blues recorded between 1941 and 1959. Also, pair of obscure blues pianists from the 1930s and tracks from a couple of significant Delta bluesmen who recorded just before the war. We also featured some recordings from leading gospel groups in the 1950s after reviewing the Malaco 50th anniversary Gospel set in the previous show.

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Cab Calloway & His Orchestra – Saunders King – King Perry – Big Maybelle – James Brown & the Famous Flames – Jesse James – Tony Hollins – Morgan Davis  – Rod Piazza – Roberta Martin Singers – Caravans – Roy Head & the Traits – Ray Agee – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at the CFMU website. The program will be available to stream or download until September 17. CFMU podcasts now available for 8 weeks. Couldn’t be easier. Just go the website, bring up the playlist and stream or download the show.

Contact Us:

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week

Check back with this site.

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July 2, 2019

Blues and Rhythm Show 251 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, July 2nd (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

We’ll be looking briefly at the new book/album set from Malaco, The Gospel According to Malaco. The occasion of this publication event is Malaco’s 50th anniversary in business. Complicating the project is the fact that Malaco today owns the gospel catalogues of the Savoy and Apollo labels, which adds a further 25 years to the gospel history contained in Malaco’s holdings.

Also on the program, pre-World War 2 blues and roots music on CD with examples from the American Epic collection as well as John Tefteler’s Classic Blues compilations. There will be a few early R&B releases from the Aristocrat-Chess-Checker labels, a bit of Soul and Morgan Davis.

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On the Show:

Forest Sykes – Danny Overbea – Henry Thomas – Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe – Blind Lemon Jefferson – Walker’s Corbin Ramblers – Mississippi Mud Mashers – Davis Sisters  – Keb’Mo – Five Blind Boys of Alabama – Albertina Walker – Dee and Don – Morgan Davis – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at the CFMU website. The program will be available to stream or download until August 13th. CFMU podcasts now available for 8 weeks. Couldn’t be easier. Just go the website, bring up the playlist and stream or download the show.

Contact Us:

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week

Check back with this site.

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October 21, 2014

Blues and Rhythm Show 152 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, October 21st, (1:00-2:30 pm)

This week, we look at some more performers scheduled for the first Hammer Bluesfest (Columbus Club of Hamilton, 222 Queenston Road, November 1st). Also on the program vaudeville blues, comedy and blues, white country music and blues. This is no deep examination but we play examples of vaudeville-influenced blues records and a few examples of musical crossover between black and white music in the twenties and thirties.

On the Show:

Morgan Davis – Smoke Wagon Blues Band – King Biscuit Boy – Blind Uncle Gaspard – Bert Williams – Coot Grant & Socks Wilson – Clara Smith & Lonnie Johnson – Hokum Boys – Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers – and others

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until November 19th.

Contact Us

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (October 28th)

We’re still winging it, planning the show the weekend before.

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February 4, 2014

Blues and Rhythm Show 117 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, February 4, 2014 (1:00-2:30 pm)

Looking at some southern blues on this week’s program and mostly from the past half century, i.e. from the album era. When we used to listen to blues and jazz shows on the radio years ago, we were always afraid to miss a  show or part of a show and miss something we hadn’t heard before. That experience informs the way we put together The Blues and Rhythm Show. We try to present the widest selection of music that we can while maintaining a high standard in what we play on the air. This week, fully half of the show is by artists we haven’t previously played on the program.

Included in this week’s show is an edition of King Biscuit Time from radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. Of course, this means Sonny Boy Williamson & His King Biscuit Entertainers, sponsored by King Biscuit Flour, makers of Sonny Boy Cornmeal. These sponsored, usually 15 minute programs, were a feature of radio in the southern states from the early 1930s. It was quite a while before recorded music pushed most live music programming from the airwaves. Examples of radio shows devoted to jazz, country, pop and some African-American gospel and vocal group music have been preserved but not much in the way of blues.

On the Show:

Memphis Gold – Jessie Mae Hemphill – Cliff Butler – Willie Willis & the Wildcatters – King Biscuit Time – Morgan Davis – Houston Stackhouse – Lynn Harmonizers – Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until March 1st.

Contact Us

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (February 11th)

We’re still working on a couple of projects, including our program on railroad blues and gospel but it may take some additional time. Not sure today what we’ll be doing next week.

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October 27, 2013

Blues and Rhythm Show 103 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 (1:00-2:30 pm)

We have not programmed a lot of white country blues week to week. Recently, we took a look at our composite playlist and recognized how little of this music we’d managed to fit into the show. We suggested last week we might do a feature on Western Swing but the feature we have put together would be better characterized as Old Timey, covering the period 1924-1935. White Country Blues serve some of the same functions as blues in the African-American tradition. They serve at times  as ironic commentary, humour, and even social protest. Some singers, like Jimmy Davis, Gene Autry and Cliff Carlisle, specialized, at least part of the time, in “blue” blues. White Country Blues also at times betrayed a fascination with African American music, speech and behaviour. Some white blues amounted to parody of black style, like the minstrel tradition, and, as with the minstrel tradition, some parody appeared to be sympathetic, even, at times, admiring, and some contemptuous and hateful. 

In the set we’ve prepared we haven’t sought out the songs that were topical or salacious. It’s a selection of blues that we hope will illustrate simply that blues was a significant part of Old Time or Hillbilly music, beside the ballads and breakdowns. 

On the Show

Lonnie Johnson – Bukka White – Big Chief Ellis  – Morgan Davis – Uncle Dave Macon – Frank Hutchinson – Dock Boggs – Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers – Riley Puckett – Holmes Brothers – and many others

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until November 26th.

Contact Us

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (November 5th)

Undetermined as of today. We’ll update.

Errors and Omissions

Last week (BRS 102), we played Curtis Jones, but we failed to mention that, like Memphis Slim and Eddie Boyd, Curtis Jones moved to Europe in the 1960s and made records there. He also made a well-received album for Delmark, in Chicago.

We experienced several skips on the CD track we played by Curtis Jones, “Bad Avenue Blues”. The CD players at the station are quite sensitive. We examined the surface of the disc to see a flaw or anything on the surface to cause the problem but couldn’t find the source of the malfunction.

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